Anything — anything — produced by Sid and Marty Krofft.
I was going to nominate TFN. Both were just aweful.
Come on… that show had some good laughs!
I also vote for Flying Nun. What the hell was that?
Also, The Patty Duke Show - The same person plays 2 characters? C’mon.
Gilligan’s Island - Gee, what plot should we have this week? I know - they try to get off the island.
Bewitched - They guy’s wife is a witch (albeit a really hot witch). Nope, that premise sure isn’t gonna ever get stale. :rolleyes:
The Munsters - Need I say more?
The premise of a talking horse (Mr. Ed) is pretty stupid.
Ever wonder how they got Mr. Ed to talk? See what Cecil has to say.
Dr. Slump (anime inspired by an Akira Toriyama–more famously known for Dragon Ball–comic) did this premise so much better. Of the bits and pieces I’ve seen, it’s pure wild madcap humor.
And talking poo. You can’t beat talking poo.
(And no, I am not making that up.)
How did we get this far in the thread without one person mentioning Manimal!?!? 
That was based on the successful series of Francis the Talking Mule movies.
I disagree that game shows have a stupid premise. Their real premise is: in the US, there is a population of people so eager for fame that they will undergo any level of abasement and ridicule and insult to score money or the hot babe/guy. This premise appears to be right on.
My vote goes to My Mother the Car.
There have been too many over the years to be able to come up with the very stupidest. Two of my nominees have been mentioned, My Mother, the Car and The Flying Nun and then I’ll add Car 54, Where Are You?. I know there are more but I’ve successfully blocked them from memory.
Along the lines of Murder She Wrote is Hart to Hart. I don’t care how rich you are, if a friend gets murdered every week, you’re gonna run out of friends.
And to prove what a total geek I am…
That comment on My Two Dad about the DNA. No, they did have DNA testing back then. In fact, it was the plot of one of the episodes. They got tested, but the daughter talked them into looking at the results because she thought of both of them as their real dad. Awwww…
Stan Freberg did some satiric commercials for the show using his principle, “more honesty than the client had in mind.” They ran a lot like that! http://freberg.8m.com/Ads/hogans.html
Bzzzzt. I’m sorry, that’s incorrect. Ironside also remained on the police force.
But thanks for playing. We have some lovely parting gifts for you.
Isn’t there a show on now called “The Medium” about a woman with ESP? I have no idea about the show, but I’m sure she uses her power for good, which would mean solving crimes is probably part of it.
And we’ll have the bulk of the Germans played by Jews who escaped/survived by the Holocaust, heck, we’ll even have one of the prisoners played by a guy who spent time in the camps! I mean, gee, if guys who suffered at the hands of the Nazi’s don’t have a problem portraying the Nazis as a bunch of buffoons, then people will find the show funny, right? They’ll get the fact that the Nazis are being mocked as a way of lessening their power, won’t they?
And, best of all, this whole series is a rip-off of Stalag 17!
Yeah, but was he blind? Huh? There’s nothing stupid about giving a paraplegic a gun-- but a blind man?
That’s just the stupidest thing ever.
To be fair, Hogan’s Heroes may have had a silly premise, but it was a funny and successful show.
Does anyone remember that David Letterman sketch from the first or second year of his on-after-Carson show on NBC? His kid is going upstairs to watch his favorite show and Dad (Dave), in his easy chair with the paper, says “you’d better hurry! You wouldn’t want to miss a single action-packed minute”, before noticing the shocking headline “VOYAGERS CANCELLED (To be replaced by better program)”. He runs upstairs to break the news gently to his son, but the kid isn’t having any, and runs away. Dave runs after him and finally finds him moping in the woods, and gives his talk. “I know how you feel–I felt the same way when they cancelled The Six-Million Dollar Man. But eventually, *The Fall Guy * came along. And I think I grew from the experience.” Finally, there’s a happy ending when Dave shows the next edition of the paper, heralding NBC’s exciting new shows Mr. Smith and Manimal.
He signs a waiver? How the hell does he know what he signed? Maybe he signed a promissory note donating 75% of his salary to the Mayor’s chief of Staff.
And what about the citizens of New York City? I don’t think any of them signed a waiver and lemme tell ya, the cops who can see have a bad habit of shooting just anybody.